this is the main reason I only speak English well, I think

Anti-trans hate group Genspect is formally calling for trans people to be repathologized. This is most certainly to set the stage for mandated conversion therapy and potentially forced institutionalization. archive.ph/yA2Wh

Last night's read, which I'm still thinking about, was The Passion of Kitty Angel Mindfreak, a zine about an irreal early-2000s reality TV show about a musician-turned-magician. Grubby, weird, cool. Might be your kind of thing? It's definitely mine.

this is the same kinda shit everyone was saying about millennials 10-15 years ago. it was bullshit then and it's bullshit now

there is now a gofundme to support barbara’s family and friends: www.gofundme.com/f/help-barba...

“It’s yet another way this regime practices eugenics. By refusing disabled people the accommodations they need, they’re targeting them for elimination. People die in ICE custody every year, but we often don’t hear about them. Their stories go untold, their pleas unheard and the eugenics unopposed”

New Jersey Theme Park Puts Animatronic Dinosaurs on Facebook Marketplace as It Shuts Down

thank you for this storygraph review, dale!! check out the book here: flameswallower.itch.io/misery-loves

German: We call this creature the sea hedgehog, because it is spiky like a hedgehog :) English: To us it is a sea urchin. Wastrel of the deep. A wretched, miserable soul cast down by God, condemned to a watery grave, a cruel living death. A being of Dickensian suffering.

Sometimes I think about how my younger self would be impressed with what I'm currently creating. They'd be stoked that I took the time to develop the skills to make the art I wanted.

Suddenly, and to Rodney’s horror, the police arrived with nerd-sniffing dogs.

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

I love everyday history and thinking about the people I love and people who have been like them elsewhere in the world and in history. Ancient people who were the thoughtful friend, the one who knows everyone, the one who takes an idea and makes magic happen, one who will tell it to you straight.

They had a show in the 90’s called Taz Mania where Taz had a family that dressed like humans which establishes that he wasn’t actually a wild animal but just sort of a weird naked guy

"A common thread through so many of these violent ICE confrontations is how the agents so often appear on the verge of a nervous breakdown or actively in the throes of one. Emotionally unstable people carrying a badge and a gun and threatening people with impunity is a recipe for [...] disaster."

We are not yet at a stage where it makes sense to see any trans fiction market as particularly gelled or even close to filled, IMO. I don’t even think we’re years away from that

literary dispute

UPDATE: The man ICE violently arrested has been identified as Job Arias-Mendoza. Two weeks ago he published a video to his social media accounts of ICE handcuffing a man in front of a liquor store—it has more than 200,000 views on TikTok. streetcarsuburbs.news/arias-mendoz...

Doing house chores, is it me leaving my mark on the space or is it the space that defines my identity and role?

Capri and Sun are East African savannah pouched rats, a species known throughout the world for its smarts, size and sense of smell.

Yeah it’s time to bring back my all time favorite tweet, by @donaldhughes.ca

thank you for this storygraph review, dale!! check out the book here: flameswallower.itch.io/misery-loves

Part II 🍂🍁 My personal favorite from the whole series #WerewolfWednesday #Art

help justine if you please. i once saw her smoke so hard she turned purple like grimace. i feel confident she could sustain herself for 2 months on a single dorito

What might not occur to you upon reading this headline is that, in other words, ICE is targeting gay men of color Every queer press org should be picking up this story

THIS is what RFK Jr. is trying to take from us!

A lil conspiracy that I lowkey-highkey believe is that at reasonable chunk of the alt text demands are coming from bots run by image AI companies. This is why they demand a level of descriptiveness and detail that blind users consistently do not want.

It's Don't Argue Inside Your Head With Other People Friday. Today, if you find yourself arguing inside your head w/someone who's not present, or whom it's not safe or not fair for you to argue with, gently move your mind away. Do this as many times as you need.

your aunt and her "roommate" of 25 years

it’s a good thing I’m not in the US right now, because I can’t promise I *wouldn’t* blow a little under $1,300 on a life sized stegosaurus sculpture if I had a means of transportation and a place to put it

imagine your HOA seeing one of these magnificent beauties on your front lawn

China sending a warship to the United States to forcibly open the country to artificial flooring products, beginning a series of conflicts known to history as The Linoleum Wars

WIFE: Uggh today SUCKED ME: What's up babe WIFE: Well, I was molting into my 4th 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳, or larval stage, as I developed toward becoming an 𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘰, or sexually mature insect. ME: No need to explain. I already know all this and support you as you move through the life cycle stages of an insect or bug.

Monthly Halloween (1985-1995) was the most important publication ever to exist

Good morning, been an age since I shared personal work here so please enjoy this ring set I made for myself after having an intensely magical summer.

Unicorn in the Garden (of stickers) remastered!!

Sama'a and her family are struggling. They desperately need our help finding shelter, as their tent is not enough to protect them from the sun. Please give what you can. gofund.me/db56c7ce3

My new baby kittens have a pricy vet follow-up in a few weeks, my old-man cat still needs his various prescriptions, AND my rent is going up in November, so book revenue is increasingly important nowadays! Please consider ordering a copy or leaving a review somewhere online 🤞

@shellcollector.bsky.social and I are watching The Pitt, which is just good, solid TV I wouldn’t normally post about, but I can’t believe how many people apparently hate the character Santos??

we were meant to live for so much more . half we lost ourselves ?

I have a big request. My baby cousin, 15, is in hospital, non-responsive. I'd like to see her one last time & am trying to fly across the ocean *tomorrow* to make this happen. It would cost about £2500 or £3300 dollars. If you're able to contribute, this is my paypal: paypal.me/riversandfam

CHOTINER: We've met before, haven't we? MADISON: I don't think so. Where was it you think we met? CHOTINER: At your house. Don't you remember? MADISON: No. No, I don't. Are you sure? CHOTINER: Of course. As a matter of fact, I'm there right now.

Today’s the VPN defense day of action! @fightforthefuture.org’s @liaholland.bsky.social tells @techradar.com: “ it’s important to make lawmakers aware that, if they come for this technology, they're gonna be facing an uphill battle against the whole internet." www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...

Available today for only 99 cents: The Nightmare Box and Other Stories by @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social! Snag a copy if you want stories about unnerving hitchhikers, sex pest-hunting vampires, malevolent foster parents, and more. www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/the-...

CHOTNER: So you had a threesome tonight? ME: During the day, actually. CHOTNER: And it improved your performance in video games? ME: I beat Phantom in one go immediately after exiting the bedroom. I would say so. CHOTNER: So you admit to leaving a room where you could fuck two people to game? ME: Uh

a remarkably thorough and compassionate exploration of an internet micro-cult story/drama that has fascinated me for 20 years: www.thehumanexception.com/the-jen-saga/

Don’t let the internet fool you. I was at a protest for trans kids yesterday an HOUR south of Seattle, and it was HUGE. And there was a cacophony of drivers beeping in support. I could not believe it. Because I spend too much online and figured it’s a lost cause.

CHOTINER: Then you dropped it. ME: Yeah. It was worth a lot of— CHOTINER: The quarter. ME: Right. CHOTINER: The one you were flipping near a sewer grate. To impress, what was it? Dames looking for trouble? ME: You know it was dames, man. CHOTINER: They didn't consider that trouble?

Huntington’s disease, a devastating degenerative illness that runs in families, has been treated successfully for the first time in a breakthrough gene therapy trial. The disease, caused by a single gene defect, steadily kills brain cells leading to dementia, paralysis and ultimately death.